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Genesis 11
The chapter starts with the story of Babylon and how languages were created. The story goes like this. People came to a plain in Babylonia, settled there and said to themselves, "Let's build a tower so tall that that it reaches the sky. Then we could all be staying here and not be scattered". But as the saying goes, 'man proposes and God disposes' ! God decides that these people are filled up with so much of pride that he decides to spoil their plans. He mixes up their languages and they being not able to understand each other get scattered all over the world.
Next section speaks about Shem's descendants. Shem, as we saw earlier, was one of the sons of Noah. He is the ancestor of all the Hebrews.We see list of Shem's descendants till Terah who is the father of Abram (who will later be called Abraham).
Terah had 3 sons - Abram, Nahor and Haran. Abram has a wife Sarai. Haran dies at a relatively young age. Haran's son is Lot. Nahor marries Milcah, Haran's daughter. Sarai is not able to have children.
Terah takes son Abram and his wife and grandson Lot, leaves the city of Ur and goes to Canaan. Terah dies once they are in Haran (This is name of a place though it is same name as Terah's son. May be they settled in this place and named it after Haran.)
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